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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Did it? AWS seems to be getting cheaper over time, not more expensive.
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Not really. I stopped using it at some point a very, very long time ago, and I don't recall why. I've moved to Youtube so it hasn't occurred to me to revisit.
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
I can't tell if you're joking?
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
I listen to a lot of old music - 1950s, 1960s. I don't really have peers who listen to it so discoverability is a real issue. Pandora was amazing for me ~20 years ago, it introduced me to songs I never would have heard. Especially in t
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> Lacking in empathy could also be said of the software devs who think that software devs are a significant customer group in the economy, when they are a tiny percentage of the work force. This is silly equivocation. I'm telling y
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> What I'm saying is that it's a non-issue for customers if software has good engineering or not, if it fulfills their needs at a price they can pay. You think that good engineering is unrelated to fulfilling needs at a price t
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> If they're too precious to adapt or take a different job, then starve. Yeah I mean I think everyone is with you except for the "then starve", this is just weirdly combative and lacking in empathy, I find it totally stra
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Yeeesh. Looking at other posts from that user, they seem to have a serious grudge against software devs, presumably for not responding to their emails. "You should starve" - words taken from another post. Look, no one wanted to
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
I mean, of course not everyone can code. I'm not saying that programming is trivial, or anyone can just naturally write code. What I'm saying is that if you're a full time engineer then some part of your day is spent programm
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
"That's an old run, rebuild and the new version will work" lol
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Right... I mean, no engineer is going to tell you that customers care about unit tests, so I think you're arguing against a straw man here. What engineers will tell you is that bugs cost money, support costs money, etc, and that unit t
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
It's hard to reconcile "I don't think I can take this seriously" followed by an immediate admission that you agree but that there's some nuance. I think the author's post is far more nuanced that this one sen
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
It's unclear what point you're even trying to make, other than that AI has been helpful to you. But surely you understand that if you don't know what a unit test is you're probably not in a position to comment on the val
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
I think it's easier for good engineers to be good, perhaps. For example, I think property testing is "good" engineering. But I suspect that if you took a survey of developers the vast majority would not actually know what pro
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> if we found a way to make the hard parts easier and prevent software projects from devolving into balls of chaos and complexity. I don't really believe this is possible. Or, it's the sort of thing that gets solved at a "
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> Code Was Never the Hard Part I can't believe this has to be said, but yeah. Code took time, but it was never the hard part. I also think that it is radically understated how much developers contribute to UX and product decisions.
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Most devs aren't very good. That's the reality, it's what we've all known for a long time. AI is trained on their code, and so these "subpar" devs are blown away when they see the AI generate boring, subpar cod
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
I absolutely have the hang of Claude and I still find that it can make those ridiculous mistakes, like replicating logic into a test rather than testing a function directly, talking to a local pg that was stale/ running, etc. I have a
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Agreed. When I've written very low level code where there are "odd" constraints ("this function must never take a lock, no system calls can be made" etc) the LLM would accidentally violate them. It seems sort of obv
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Maybe, but the person they're responding to seemed to be genuine in their question, and I worry that they'll read a statement like "they mostly ate meat" and think it's plausible when it's insanely incorrect.
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
lol this is such utter bullshit? I'm blown away by how confidently stated and how utterly incorrect this is. 1. Ancient egyptians ate fucktons of wheat and barley, lentils, chickpeas, etc. They ate massive amounts of fiber lol I mean
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> Yeah, i wonder what was the fiber i take for someone from egypt or hunter gatherers. Very high. > But if a person is regular and does not have any gut issues, how would more fiber help? There is a ton of research about this and it&#
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
I think that's all very fair.
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
That's fine. It's just unclear to me if the parent poster is being critical exclusively of people "irl" giving unsolicited advice or if they're speaking to the forum of users who come here explicitly to discuss topi
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
> My comment is that it is not ONLY low fiber diets. Well, you said "can't" and I asked "why", which feels very reasonable to me. Your argument seems to be that it wouldn't account properly for the data - sp
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
You're on a discussion forum where the topic is colon cancer. Surely you understand that people are going to discuss it? It's a bit hard to tell from your post what you're saying. Certainly I can imagine being annoyed by cons
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Uh, what? I have not made a presuppositional argument (I made no argument at all...). I made a statement about my epistemic state - ie: that I would "bet" on low fiber being the major contributor to colon cancer rates. Someone the
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Why?
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
This is my personal bet. It's just low fiber diets.
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by staticassertion 6mo ago
Yeah for sure, it's a real issue. In general, seccomp feels hard to use unless you own your stack top to bottom.

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